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What Is a DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment)?

Osano on 4/4/2024

Even though it may not seem like it, the purpose of laws like the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) isn’t just for the EU to gain additional revenue through fines and penalties. They exist to protect individuals’...more

Final Call to Respond to ICO’s Consultation on Biometric Data

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/18/2023

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the personal data protection authority in the United Kingdom (UK), is running a public consultation on its draft guidance on biometric data which covers the requirements under the...more

Colorado Privacy Act: Another Piece to the Data Privacy Puzzle

Ankura on 9/15/2021

Privacy laws have entered the compliance world by storm and are quickly changing data privacy practices. The most recent state, Colorado, passed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) into law on July 7, 2021. This new act follows...more

Europe OPTS for Pragmatism with New SCCS and ICO Opens Consultations on UK SCCS — What Companies Need to Do Next

Goodwin on 8/27/2021

The dust has settled on the new EU standard contractual clauses for cross-border data transfers (“New SCCs”), but confusion still reins on how the New SCCs cover data transfers and what companies need to do to take advantage...more

Chapter 12: Impact Assessments, DPOs and Codes of Conduct – Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation

White & Case LLP on 4/18/2019

Why does this topic matter to organisations? A significant aspect of complying with EU data protection law is demonstrating compliance—making it evident to DPAs that an organisation is meeting its obligations. Three of the...more

GRDP Update: WP29 Guidelines adopted for Data Protection Impact Assessment

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 10/19/2017

The new GDPR is much more detailed than the 1995 Directive. The GDPR has 99 articles, versus 34 in the Directive. And a few new key concepts clearly require new guidance....more

Article 29 Working Party Issues Guidance on Data Protection Impact Assessments

Hogan Lovells on 4/27/2017

The steady trickle of GDPR guidance from the Article 29 Working Party continues. Fresh from finalising its guidance on data portability, lead supervisory authorities and data protection officers, the Working Party has...more

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